[f. QUIVER v.1] An act of quivering; a tremble; ellipt. a trembling of the voice. † Also = QUAVER sb. 1.

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1715.  Pennecuik, Poems, 73. Cupid … Tun’d all his Crotchets, Quiuers, Semibrieues.

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1786.  Mad. D’Arblay, Lett., 16 Oct. I was all in a quiver, but gathered courage [etc.].

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1853.  C. Brontë, Villette, xiv. Heaven was … grand with the quiver of its living fires.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 204. Thrasymachus, I said, with a quiver, have mercy on us.

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